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Experts: Proposed Laws May Bring Trouble

According to some in the industry, the European Commission's (EC) proposed changes to the Data Protection Directive may bring problems for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Stewart Room of Field Fisher Waterhouse questions the feasibility and usefulness of the proposed 24-hour breach notification provision, noting that it would mean the ICO--which is "already swamped with disclosures"--will see even more. Meanwhile, PC Pro reports that Peter Fleischer, Google's chief privacy counsel, writes in his blog about the effect the law will have on SMEs, stating, "Frankly, I wonder how an SME could possibly deal with this paperwork and process torrent and how they're supposed to pay for it."Full Story

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In a speech Tuesday, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Günther Oettinger said the EU should create a single law to protect its citizens' data from Facebook and Google, USA Today reports. "Americans are in the lead. They have the data, the business models and the power,” Oettinger said, warning tech giants must do more to comply with the EU's data protection rules or face being "thrown out of the single market." Meanwhile, PwC Legal Partner Stewart Room, CIPP/E, has suggested ...
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The Italian Data Protection Authority, the Garante, imposed privacy-related fines totaling about EUR 5 million, up about 20 percent over the 2013 total, Telecompaper reports. The sanctions applied to both public entities and private companies and mainly concerned privacy violations, a Garante newsletter explains. The Garante “carried out a total of 385 checks, issued 577 administrative fines and reported 39 cases to the courts,” the report states. The Garante noted the fines "mainly referred to ...
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Nymity has announced the signing of a long-term cooperative agreement with Bulgaria’s Commission for Personal Data Protection to support the commission's accountability initiatives. “By applying the Nymity Privacy Management Accountability Framework in compliance with the EU and the Bulgarian data protection framework, and considering the Bulgarian data controllers' needs,” Chairman of the Board for the Personal Data Protection Ventsislav Karadjov said, the commission “lays down the necessary pr...
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Following recent news that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) infiltrated and stole the encryption keys of the world's largest SIM card manufacturer, Gemalto has said it has “reasonable grounds to believe that an operation by NSA and GCHQ probably happened," but the hack was limited to office networks "and could not have resulted in a massive theft of SIM encryption keys." Meanwhile, The Guardian reports, “The regime under which UK in...
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